Overheard at our house this past weekend… Our three year old: “Mommy, mommy, I have ammonia.” (He meant pneumonia.) My wife: “Ammonia? Well, then you better clean the house.” Our three year old: “No! I’m not a woman.” Wow. I’m not sure if we should laugh or hide our faces in shame.
Oh, the irony… Son #3 recently arrived home from kindergarten carrying a t-shirt declaring him to be a member of the Class of 2020. This for a child that has been wearing glasses since age 3, and has anything but 20/20 vision. It’s also a bit difficult for someone who graduated in the the Class [...]
This is just a quick note to wish you all a (slightly belated) Happy New Year! We just returned from a trip to visit family (where we got a much-needed dose of snow) and are still recovering. All in all, things went very well. We had actually planned to stay home for the holidays, but [...]
When it rains it pours… After discovering that we have H. pylori in the house, we decided to scrap our Thanksgiving travel plans and stay close to home. Our plan was to celebrate close to home, get well, and perhaps even recover a bit from the recent havoc brought on by a major home renovation. [...]
The other day my wife informed me that Son #2 (currently seven years old) had run a Google images search for ‘butts’ on her MacBook when he was supposedly searching for information on reptiles. And yes, he was sitting right out in the middle of the dining room in plain view when he did it, [...]
Few things in life tick me off more than when one of our kids willingly damages our house (although getting turned over to collections for a bill that’s not actually late ranks right up there). This isn’t common occurrence, mind you, but it does happen. For example, I returned home the other day to this: [...]
As we were driving by the Health Department the other day, our ten year old piped up and said: “Dad, do you know what would be a great idea? Vaccine pops. You know, lollipops with vaccines built in. Or maybe popsicles, since those are even easier to eat. That would be awesome, because everybody hates [...]
I was awoken early yesterday morning (more like the middle of the night) by flashing lights and the sound of a blasting car horn. To make a long story short, it seems that someone had tried to break into our neighbor’s car. I hopped out of bed, flipped on our exterior lights, and then called [...]
Not long ago, I wrote about some issues that our two year old was having with preschool separation anxiety. Well, that time has passed, and I’m happy to say that the transition to preschool couldn’t have gone better for our youngest.
I recently wrote about how my wife and I handled finding a wallet stuffed with $1,100 in cash and no identification. (In short, we did the right thing, but click through if you want the full story.) In a related story, our oldest son (who just turned ten, but was probably about six at the [...]
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